In honor of National Coming Out Day, I wanted to highlight the growing number of families that are made up of same sex parents and remind readers about the film by Focus Features that had me smiling, laughing, crying and reflecting on my own unique family. The Kids Are All Right played at independent theatres [...]
Archive for the ‘parenting’ Category
4 Jun
Are you an Opinionated Mama?
The O-mama ladies sure know how to treat a lady! I was so excited to be invited to the Tribute to Mommy Bloggers sponsored by the O-mama mamas (Debbie and Michelle). As soon as I walked in to their headquarters (the private home of one of the founders), I was greeted by lovely, smiling ladies [...]
19 Mar
You Deserve a Treat
I share a lot of personal stories with my clients when they have me all to themselves. This one usually gets a strong response from parents. A few years ago, when I was working full-time, my son and I would go to the grocery store on Saturday mornings. It was the first thing I’d want [...]
18 Mar
Dear Mom and Dad, I Forgive You
Today is National Forgive Your Parents Day. I admit, it’s one that I had not heard of until this year but it struck me as being a rather important event in many people’s lives. Becoming a parent and seeing my son develop and go through different stages in our process of forming our parent & [...]
12 Jan
All I Really Need to Know About Parenting, I Learned From Watching Mad Men
Along with everything else in this world, parenting practices evolve over time. Watching AMC’s Mad Men reminds us that things, and we as a culture change, usually for the better and with good reason. One of my favorite scenes shows Betty Draper sitting at the kitchen table, smoking yet another cigarette, while Sally runs through [...]
26 Dec
Progressive Parenting
Parenting styles vary from house to house and from generation to generation. Our children learn about new things and ideas every day, teaching us about concepts that never even existed when we were their age. So much information is out there to process and download, that it’s amazing we have time for much else. I [...]
4 Nov
How Thirsty Are You?
By Steve Goodier Isn’t it wonderful when we get thirsty – not for water, but thirsty to chase a dream or to so something different? I think it is those people who crave something with an unquenchable thirst who, in the end, are likely to be most satisfied with their lives. Alan C. Elliott talks [...]
23 Apr
What Moms Really Think about Grandparents!
A few months back I was asked to provide input for an article that Susan Avery was putting together for Grandparents.com. She asked for my opinion on whether or not my mom or mother-in-law interferes or if I could offer some general advice for grandparents. I was happy to share my two cents, which appears [...]
13 Feb
Putting Myself First
My son got sick early this morning and is sleeping off whatever it is that made him ill. He doesn’t get sick often so it’s hard to see him so miserable. He woke up asking for more water and didn’t have much energy to even lift his head. Today was going to be a special [...]
30 Jan
New Feature
When I first drew the road map for my website (over a year ago) I had envisioned a page in which I’d recommend some great parenting books but it never dawned on me that I’d be adding books to that list continuously. I have recently created a Happy Healthy Hip Parenting Bookstore so that the [...]
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